What's New

March, 2010 - Colasoft Capsa 7.1.2

New Features:

• Add Duplicate function for Network Profiles and Analysis Profiles in Start Page.
  

Changes:

• New Start Page makes it easy to use.
• Add Local Engine Setting build in System Menu.
• Editing function of Network Profile and Analysis Profile moved to context menu.
• Format and Report setting page moved from System Options dialog to Local Engine Settings dialog.

Bug fixed:

• Cannot add new network group in Network Profile when auto network config detection failed.
  

Feb 2, 2010 - Colasoft Capsa 7.1

• New interface style.
• New global dash board.
• New Diagnose view provides overview of related hosts list. Rapidly pinpoint problem hosts.
• Add Network Profile. It is a series of settings for different network environment, which including Network Group, Name Table, Alarm and Network Bandwidth setting.
• Add new analysis solutions. Include Global Analysis, Large Traffic Analysis and various frequently-used protocols analysis.
• Add online real-time alerts.
• Add new time sequence diagram for TCP conversation. Show both SYN and ACK response of TCP connection.
• Real-time analysis. Set adapters as source of data collection, which provide an intuitive display of traffic.
• Replay analysis. Set archive packet files as source of second time analysis. Support various replay speeds and provide retrospective analysis of historical issues.
• Support customized protocols for Ethernet II, IP, TCP, UDP.
• Support customized graphs.
• Support customized report and export as PDF.
• Enhanced packet filters.

July 1, 2009 - Colasoft Capsa 6.9 R2

Colasoft has released Capsa 6.9 R2, packet sniffer software designed for network monitoring and troubleshooting purpose.

New Features:

• Support Windows 7 32bit and 64bit Edition.
• Packet Player: Support replay multiple packet files simultaneously.
• Globally added two new options: alias(or hostname) and address can be displayed simultaneously.
• There is a new option in the global Option settings users can enable to prevent hibernation when capturing.
• New protocol ISL and FCoE can be recognized now.
• Decoders for ISL, FCoE protocols.
• Support Windows Server 2008 32bit and 64bit Edition.

• A online help section activated in Start Page below Quick Link.
• The Loopback won't be shown in the NIC test wizard.

• A wrong value has been displayed in the decode area for IP Fragment Offset.
• Users login as other windows ID will have to reactivate Capsa each time.

Oct 16, 2008 - Colasoft Capsa 6.9

This new release has the following features and improvements.

New Features:

• Globally added two new option: Show Physical address as & Show IP address as.
• A new option added to prevent hibernation when capturing.
• Support decoding ISL, FCoE

• A online help section activated in Start Page below Quick Link.
• The Loopback won't be shown in the NIC test wizard.

• A wrong value has been displayed in the decode area for IP Fragment Offset.

July 04, 2008 - Colasoft Capsa 6.8

This new release has the following features and improvements.

New Features:

• New Option for "Auto save packet file" in General Settings to specify the length of each packet to be saved.
• New GEO column in Endpoint View.
• New dock window for "Online Resources".
• New protocols decoder supported: Bittorrent, Emule, MSSQL, TNS.

• Updated the lib for National IP Address information.
• Improved the DNS analysis modules.

• When the program is not running, openning unsupported packet file by double click may cause incorrect value under count value in Summary View and Diagnosis view.

February 21, 2008 - Colasoft Capsa 6.7

This new release has the following features and improvements.

New Features:

• 110 new protocols supported, including Time, Nameserver, Tacacs, Xns-time, JE, Discard, Systat, Qotd, MSP, Daytime, Msg-auth, Auditd, Ni-ftp, MPM, MPM-snd, Re-mail-ck, La-maint, XNS-ch, XNS-auth, XNS-mail, Tacacs-ds, Mit-ml-dev, CTF, NPP, DCP, Supdup, Swift-rvf, Tacnews, Mcidas, Pwdgen, Cisco-fna, Cisco-tna, Cisco-sys, Statsrv, Emfis-data, Emfis-cntl, GGP, HMP, PRM, RDP, IRTP, NETBLT, DCCP, IDPR, DDP, SDRP, IDRP, DSR, NARP, TLSP, PVP, SMP, PTP, CRTP, CRUDP, PIPE, FC, SPS, SNP, ISO-TP4, SKIP, CFTP, EIGRP Hello, EIGRP Query, EIGRP Reply, EIGRP Update, Login, Who, Yahoo Messenger, X-Window, ISMP, UMA, ISO-TP0, ISO-IP, BFTP, SGMP, SGMP-traps, NAMP, Send, RIS, MPP, CDC, Http-mgmt, PIP, Rtsps, Pdap, NSRMP, RSVP_tunnel, IBM-app, SNPP, RCP, NMSP, IDFP, SCC Security, Submission, Password-chg, SMIP, XDAS, CFS, RAMP, ACNET, Sflow, CRIP, TRIP, Mnet-discovery, Rwhois, SCCP, Citrix ICA, Rexec, Biff, RTP with VLC.
• Support decoding GGP, ISMP, IGRP, EIGRP, CDP, CGMP.

• DHCP decoder may cause program hang when decoding certain DHCP packets.
• On Windows x64 platform, cannot start capture due to packet buffer size validation failure if available physical system memory larger than 2GB.

November 5, 2007 - Colasoft Capsa 6.6

This new release has the following features and improvements.

New Features:

• Support Windows Vista 64-bit Edition;
• 15 new protocols supported: Tunnel, Echo, CMIP-Agent, CMIP-Man, SFTP, RAP, RLP, Radius, Radius-acct, Radius-dynauth, eMule, PPlive, SShell, Kerberos, Windows NLB.

• Port 4443 now recognized as AIM protocol.

• Packet distribution statistics dose not work when restart capturing after open an existing project file;
• The 1 byte packet value filter dose not work correctly with byte masks.

September 3, 2007 - Colasoft Capsa 6.5

This new release has the following features and improvements.

New Features:

• Analysis of 4 IM protocols: MSN, Yahoo Messenger, AIM, and ICQ; real-time message display and record;
• User Wizard to test NIC and check installation and deployment.

• Alter Log file format from ANSI to UTF-8.

• Graph view: crash after multi-clicking on "compare mode";
• Report: blank "traffic" and "packet" under Top titles of Report under Windows 2000 + SP4 and Windows 2003 + SP1.

March 22, 2007 - Colasoft Capsa 6.4

This new release supports Windows Vista platform and AMD 64bit Edition (XP/2003), it also has some new protocol decoders and display improvements.

New Features:

• Supports Windows Vista.
• Supports Windows XP 64-bit Edition and Windows Server 2003 64-bit Edition (AMD x64 Processor architectures).

• New protocol decoders: Gopher, ICP, SCTP, VRRP.
• Add "Custom Columns" toolbar button in the Endpoints, Protocols, Conversations, Packets and Logs view.

• Email analyzer: Incorrect email address extracted from certain MIME header.
• Demo version: Log buffer limitation should be 512KB rather than 512 bytes.

December 13, 2006 - Colasoft Capsa 6.3 build 1073

This release introduces a new network tool Packet Builder, you can now construct your own custom packets and sending them into the network. This release also includes many enhancements as well as bug fix.

New Features:

• Packet Builder, constructing custom packets and sending them into the network.
• New analyzer setting page in Options.

• New protocol decoders: PPTP, RSVP, COPS, L2TP, LPD, ICMPv6, IPv6, MSN, QQ.
• Packet Player now supports burst mode and loop sending.
• Enhanced send packets in Capsa now supports burst mode and loop sending.
• Add 'Locate Explorer Node' toolbar button in all sub-views.

• Log view didn't refresh automatically.
• Selected columns didn't work when exporting list items to txt, csv or html files.
• No data in 'Decode' column when exporting packet list to txt, csv or html files.
• In project setting, the bandwidth value of adapter will become negative if enter a value large than 2147.
• Summary view didn't remember column status and width.

September 27, 2006 - Colasoft Capsa 6.2

This release includes many new features, enhancements and introduces customizable external tools feature which allow user integrate other handy network tools into Capsa, along with three built-in tools including Packet Player, MAC Address Scanner and Ping Tool. This release also added the useful send packets feature, and the overall analyzing performance improved significantly by optimized packet identification engine and optimized statistic counter updating method.

New Features:

• Send packets
• Built-in tools: Packet Player, MAC Address Scanner and Ping Tool
• Customizable external tools

• New protocol decoders: IGMP, IPX, SPX, NCP, RIP v1, RIP v2, OSPF, SAP, HSRP
• New protocol identification: NetWare IPX, NetWare Link Services Protocol, NetWare RIP Reply, NetWare SAP
• Optimized packet protocol identification process, 200% faster
• Improved statistic counter updating efficiency, 100% faster
• Manual host name resolution now supports reviewing the results
• Improved TCP stream view updating method

• Some protocols field may displays incorrect value in decode column of packets list view
• Packet decode view couldn't restore protocol field selection correctly
• Error packet and lost packet counter data didn't reset to zero when clear project data

July 25, 2006 - Colasoft Capsa 6.1

This release incorporates many new features and enhancements including 64bit chart data sampling, MPLS packet decoder and Ethernet/IP protocol statistics, customizable reports including top 10 IP, top 10 protocol and chart, packet view now incorporates a decode column, and so on.　

• New Reports view displays the real time statistics reports of global or specific groups
• New display type combo box in the Protocols view
• New Decode column in the Packets view
• New Next Sequence Packet Number of the decoded packets in the Packets view
• New Bytes Send/Receive Ratio and Packets Send/Receive Ratio displayed in the Endpoints view when the number of packets exceed 10
• Enhanced protocol identification now supports loopback, SNMP Trap, SSDP, ICP, COPS, RTP, IP Fragment, GDP, HSRP, MPLS, XNS and AARP
• Enhanced MPLS packets decoding
• Enhanced import/export packets file in TCP DUMP(*.dmp) format
• Enhanced resolve host name manually in every views which displays the IP address
• Enhanced the size of chart samples
• Enhanced the details of ICMP decoding

April 25, 2006 - Colasoft Capsa 6.0

Colasoft Capsa 6.0 is released today. Expert network sniffer designed for packet decoding and network diagnosis, Colasoft Capsa analyzes the network traffic of your network. With packet capture, decode, filtering, matrix, graphs, conversations, host table and statistics, users will have a tremendous amount of information to troubleshoot and manage their networks.

• New Expert Matrix view shows all communicating endpoints within your network
• New Conversations view now supports physical, IP, TCP and UDP conversation.
• New DNS analysis module provides DNS-specific diagnoses and DNS query log
• New protocol decoders Finger, TFTP, Telnet and SSH
• Enhanced protocol identification now supports RIP, RIPV1, RIPV2, RIPV3, RIPV4, QQ, BitTorrent
• Enhanced project explorer - Groups Internet address by its geographical location
• Enhanced project explorer - Displays the realtime status of each nodes
• Enhanced graphs view extensive use of GDI+ supports shading, antialiasing and highlighting
• Exporting chart now supports PNG and EMF format
• Passively resolve IP addresses instead of automatically resolve
• Importing packets file now supports EhterPeek v7, ArioPeek v9 and OmniPeek v9 format

January 20, 2006 - Colasoft Capsa 5.5

Colasoft Capsa 5.5 is released today. This update version adds the following new features and makes many

Improvements:

• Expert network diagnosis module
• Filter table to share packet filter across projects
• Graphic packet filter interface
• Auto save captured packets to one or more packet files
• Find items in the explorer windows and almost all list views
• Sub views in the endpoints view and protocols view displaying related packets
• Identifiable protocol: IGAP, RGMP and PPPoE
• Protocol decoder: NetBIOS, DHCP, BOOTP, SMB, CIFS, SMTP, POP3, FTP and PPPoE
• Project setting options: save setting as default, custom port, statistics settings
• Global options: keep recent file, disable smooth scrolling
• Import wizard with range options
• Export process window
• Hot keys in the packets view
• Warning notice for project setting
• Import/export feature in the name table
• Layout options for protocol filter

August 26, 2005 - Colasoft Capsa 5.0

The new version of Colasoft Capsa contains many improvements and new features compared with the previous version. It supports monitoring multiple adapters (enterprise edition only), letting you view the traffic passing through your network via different adapters. The advanced analyzers provide more detailed information about network traffic, allowing you to view the analyzed data of email messages, FTP transfers and HTTP requests. Simple filters and advanced filters can narrow the target hosts, letting you quickly focus on suspect traffic and identify the source of network troubles. Statistics and graphs let you view network communications in various ways, bring you an overall and visual impression of your network. Flexible and intuitive interface is the outstanding feature of Colasoft Capsa, you can easily switch from an overall statistics to the details of a specific network node, even a rookie user can manage it efficiently in a few moments.

• New statistic views
• New graphs view (unique to enterprise edition)
• New statistic reports (unique to enterprise edition)
• Preview and print
• More supported network protocols
• New command line parameters
• Enhanced name table
• Summary statistics snapshots (unique to enterprise edition)
• New packet summary
• Enhanced log views and log files
• Enhanced packet filter
• Locate explorer nodes
• Multiple adapters in a project (unique to enterprise edition)
• Enhanced advanced analyzers
• Local host TDI loopback traffic (unique to enterprise edition)
• New related packets
• Enhanced project explorer
• New project status
• New network profile (unique to enterprise edition)